I hope everyone is relaxed and refreshed from our November break. I also hope you took my suggestion and kept up reading at least part of the time we were away. We have big books to be done with before our December break. We also have a service project we'll be planning and implementing over our December break (and hopefully beyond!). Let's get right to our tasks this week as we move swiftly along through our last month of 2015!
Tuesday: Students will read their book club book in a small group or alone. After time for reading has concluded, they will be switching homework with a book club partner and writing whether or not they agree with the partner's analysis on their book and current events and why or why not.
Wednesday: Students read more of the book club book and create a vocabulary word wall to play bingo on Friday.
Thursday: Students write a brief summary of their book and how it relates to our theme of Teens Changing the World. Individuals will then brainstorm how they might impact their community by performing community service. (Students who have not finished this will be assigned as homework). Students will spend the rest of the period reading their book club book.
Friday: Students will read their book club book and then play vocabulary bingo for fun and prizes.
We hope to have all 300-400 pages of these books read by December 17:
I Am Malala
To Kill A Mockingbird
Diary Of A Young Girl: The Story of Anne Frank
I Have Lived A Thousand Years
Although it is not mandatory, I highly recommend finding a copy of these books to read on weekends and evenings. These are big undertakings and will take longer than our 60 minutes a day in class. I will also start a lending library for those students who would like to take them home to read over the weekend. Since these are my only copies, I will be very vehement about these books being returned on Tuesday morning.
Thanks for being Teens That Change The World. I'm so looking forward to hearing about everyone's plans for impacting their communities.
Mrs. K
